i watched last night, with dismay, an old lawrence welk Christmas show from 1966. lawrence welk! i know, right?
i don't know where to start!
i remember lawrence welk being cheesy back in the day, so imagine the pungency of the cheese 46 years later!
and the technology! or the absence of, i should say. poor mr. welk had everybody's family and kids on the show and of course, all the kids had to sing a Christmas song, whether they could sing or not (and none of them could), and lawrence welk kept running with his microphone from one kid to the next! he practically tripped over the wires a couple of times and you could hear static all over the place. and apparently, back in the day, we accepted that! we thought that a musical t.v. host running like a maniac around the stage with only one lousy microphone was entertainment (and not the funny kind)!
hard to believe.
he had the lennon sisters on, of course. i swear to you, my blood practically turned to 100% sugar listening to those chicks.
remember norma zimmer? well, norma zimmer (God rest her soul - she died last year) must have used every can of hairspray in hollywood. but she did have a nice voice.
speaking of "nice" voice........after every performance, lawrence welk would tap his baton into the palm of his hand and say, "folks, wasn't dat niiiiiiice? dat was so, so nice. thank you, bobby and norma!"
i don't know why i kept watching, but i did. i watched the whole cotton-pickin' show. and when it was finally over and i changed the channel, i stumbled across another news report on sandy hook. and it was then that i knew why i had watched the lawrence welk Christmas show:
because it was nice.
